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| author | Lucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de> | 2016-10-26 02:40:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2016-10-25 20:40:21 -0400 |
| commit | d4a48671bc453ead3cff911a0dfcc16ce5538072 (patch) | |
| tree | 970800188da33bf577f1db8a863332646347c5e8 /man/systemctl.xml | |
| parent | 2b7466a22b897c7c30550f3572fbdd7bc77554ec (diff) | |
man: document that systemctl cat shows file content (#4488)
... and that that content might be outdated.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemctl.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemctl.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml index a4d4c53725..225eb06d8b 100644 --- a/man/systemctl.xml +++ b/man/systemctl.xml @@ -894,7 +894,11 @@ kobject-uevent 1 systemd-udevd-kernel.socket systemd-udevd.service <para>Show backing files of one or more units. Prints the "fragment" and "drop-ins" (source files) of units. Each file is preceded by a comment which includes the file - name.</para> + name. Note that this shows the contents of the backing files + on disk, which may not match the system manager's + understanding of these units if any unit files were + updated on disk and the <command>daemon-reload</command> + command wasn't issued since.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |